What's a movie you love, but you never recommend to anyone?

A good year with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. It has everything in it. But, watching it makes you want a nice red wine. The beginning is difficult to watch but the rest of the film is very enjoyable.

Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train". So cleverly put together, but it's now considered old-fashioned and - worse - it requires a bit of thinking about to "get" it. People prefer easier entertainment these days. I wouldn't recommend any film/play/book/music to anyone - people ought to make their own choices and decisions, not just do what other people recommend.

Its actually Rudolph Hess..not Hoss...just to be correct.

The potato men with jonny vegas

Brief Encounter but I think some people would find it over romantic.I found it had good moral story and the way some men just said yes dear to their wife without listening said it all!

i have 2 films that i have watched over and over soylent green and a matter of life and death.

jenpax

Twister. I cant really say why but it is one that both middle DD and I love

Snap, it’s a favourite in our house.

Twister. I cant really say why but it is one that both middle DD and I love

I agree. Absolutely chilling,

A French Film called Les Yeux Sans Visage. (Eyes without a face) A horror film about a man whois trying to repair his daughter’s damaged face and experiments of women to do so. B/W 50’s. Scary.

Bridey

Oh i agree Sarnia, i have watched Zone of Interest 3 times now, and each time i hear/see things i have missed, its an amazing film.

Yes, quite unique but chilling.
I couldn't fathom out what the silhouette scenes were all about. I had to look it up. The director, Jonathan Glazer, wanted to show that even in the darkest times, there are always those with compassion. So he included the black and white scenes where the Polish girl is leaving apples for the prisoners to find.

Oh i agree Sarnia, i have watched Zone of Interest 3 times now, and each time i hear/see things i have missed, its an amazing film.

"More than Heaven Allows" . Made in 1955 and starring Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson. A love story with some interesting issues of the day. (Children think widowed mum in past it!)
Could be considered "schmaltzy" especially these days, but it includes issues of "class" and age differences, which are just as relevant these days, IMO.

Zone of Interest.
My Dad started taking me to the cinema when I was 5 and in the intervening 73 years I have watched umpteen films but never one like this. It is, without doubt, the most disturbing film I have ever seen.
This true story centres on Rudolph Hoss and his family life with his wife and 5 children. They have a beautiful home and splendid garden where the family enjoy entertaining, enjoying the best of everything. Through the garden gate is another world entirely. Auschwitz. Hoss is the Kommandant of this hell hole, cheek by jowl with his home. We never see inside. Jonathan Glazer, the director, makes our imagination work out the horrors. The distant screams, the sound of another train pulling in, the smoke spiralling into the sky.
I hesitate to recommend it because it has never left me and as brilliant as this film is it has the power to shock. Many would not want to watch it.